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AshNazg
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May 27 2015, 12:44am
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Video: Why did Frodo Leave Middle-earth?
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I found this video pretty funny: https://youtu.be/zQeYyiuqOaI But it raised a question for me. At the end he says "or you could study the real world's history". I have actually thought about this before. I know Middle-earth's cultures and history so much better than the real world, I sometimes wonder whether I've wasted my time filling my head with nonsense instead of reading about great people and events that actually happened on Earth. I suppose I see the real world as too big and complex, too intimidating to begin to learn and study. Tolkien's world, while complex, is much more black and white "these were the good guys, these were the bad guys and these guys were conflicted" so I find it more entertaining to digest. Does anyone else feel this way? I'm sure many of you (probably a majority) do have a strong interest in history or different cultures or wars etc. so see it very differently. I also wonder, does Middle-earth help you remember things in our own history? Or similarly do you remember any parts of Lord of the Rings because they remind you of real historical people or events? I went on a bit of a tangent there, feel free to discuss the video rather than my strange questions
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oliphaunt
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May 28 2015, 11:48pm
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Middle-earth is about real conflicts
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Middle-earth is about real conflicts. The events are not within our recorded history, but the conflicts, the challenges, the temptations, the triumphs are the same. I think our experience of Middle-earth helps us understand history, and our own personal history. It helps provide a point of view. Good is good, and evil is evil, whether you are in Middle-earth or New York City. I think we all need to learn to judge between the good and evil in our own hearts on our way to making sense of the events in the world at large. ps I didn't watch the video yet...
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Gandalf the Green
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May 29 2015, 6:07pm
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We don't know if the real world's history is entirely true
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Because we know that Tolkien's history of Middle-Earth is the true history of Middle-Earth for a fact. We do not know how much real history as we know it today has been tampered with, which is most likely the case, nor do we know what is true for certain. Other than that, what you said applies to my case, as well.
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shadowdog
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May 29 2015, 7:25pm
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Most of the differences in real world history is which side of each conflict you are getting the history from. The same is true with Tolkien's Middle Earth. I think those that opposed the elves and men would have a very different view of Middle Earth and the events that occurred therein.
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lonelymountainhermit
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Jun 13 2015, 6:40pm
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Being a historian of Middle-earth is far less frustrating.
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Otaku-sempai
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Jun 13 2015, 8:34pm
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Because we know that Tolkien's history of Middle-Earth is the true history of Middle-Earth for a fact. Not entirely. The Quenta Silmarillion, as published, represents the history of the First Age, but filtered through the perspective and biases of some historian(s) in Numenor. Some elements might not, arguably, be factually accurate.
"At the end of the journey, all men think that their youth was Arcadia..." - Phantom F. Harlock
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